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A nationwide movement to allow delegates to the Republican National Convention to vote against Donald Trump has gained adherents in Arizona, putting its advocates in the state on a possible collision course with the Arizona Republican Party.

Emily Pitha, a fundraiser for establishment Republicans, was arrested this week following a police raid on her Phoenix home that found a meth lab, cocaine, heroin, LSD, ecstasy and the beginning of a marijuana grow-house.

Some of Donald Trump’s surrogates in Arizona are sounding the alarm about an Arizona GOP directive that they say may hurt the tycoon in his battle with Ted Cruz for delegates to the Republican National Convention.

DeWit agrees with a growing sentiment among some activists that the Arizona Republican Party’s requirement that district and county parties allow proxy votes in selecting state convention delegates hurts Trump and aids Cruz.

Some longtime Republican activists are speculating that the Arizona Republican Party’s decision to allow the use of proxy votes at the 40 district and county meetings (where 1,251 delegates to the party’s April 30 state convention were elected) is not only a break from decades of precedent, but potentially a strategy to undermine Trump.

In most presidential election years, the selection of delegates to the national conventions is of little import. But with Cruz and Trump preparing to slug it out at what’s expected to be the first brokered Republican convention in decades, those delegates have taken on a new significance.

As pressure ramps up nationally on Republicans to unify against Donald Trump’s bid for the GOP presidential nomination, Gov. Doug Ducey declined to join that camp and said he’ll support whichever candidate wins his party’s nomination.